Writing and book holidays observed in July, as high summer. Every literary celebration, author day, and reading observance falling in July, each marked with an essay.
DialogueHemingway built a prose style out of omission and spent thirty years being imitated badly by people who copied the short sentences and missed the method. The technique is learnable. The imitations fail because they reproduce the surface and skip…
Children's BooksWhite spent fifty years writing essays for The New Yorker, wrote a children's book about a spider that has sold over forty-five million copies, and revised his old professor's self-published pamphlet into the most influential style guide in English. He…
AIInternational Chess Day is July 20. In 1997 a machine beat the world champion and everyone said chess was finished. Chess is now bigger than it has ever been, and writers are being told the same thing about AI right…
JulyHeinlein is one of science fiction's Big Three and the dean of the genre, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. A look at his plot-driven fiction and the complicated love I hold…
Book DesignJuly 30 is Paperback Book Day. A 113-book author on why paperbacks changed publishing and why physical books still matter.
CensorshipA writer's reflection on Independence Day, from childhood fireworks to Big Bear Lake, from grandfather's POW camp to the freedom to build a career out of words
JulyJuly 20, 1969: eight years old, black-and-white TV, Walter Cronkite's voice cracking as the Eagle touched down. I did not fully understand it, but I understood people were on the moon. That night lit a lifelong obsession with space and…
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